(Business Insider) Earlier this week everyone was talking about the power struggle behind the removal of ousted North Korean military chief Ri Yong-ho.
While the report cannot be confirmed at present, it certainly puts recent moves in North Korea into a different light. A few days after Ri was ousted (under the guise of illness), supreme leader Kim Jong Un gave himself the title of Marshall in the North Korean military.
(PRISON PLANET) Dictator's death could have been result of internal power struggle with country's military. A prominent North Korean defector and a South Korean politician are contradicting reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il died of a heart attack, pointing to rumors that he was assassinated as result of an internal power struggle between the ruling Communist Workers' Party and the country's military.
"A rumor is circulating that earlier a high-ranking North Korean official was shot dead. This has yet to be confirmed, but such talk is evidence that discontent was brewing among some people in the North," political scientist An Chan-il told the Korea Times.
"As their vested interests were hurt due to Kim Jong-il, I would not rule out the possibility that some military officers, who believed their clout and influence had been damaged, could have played a role in his death," An said.
Rep Chun Yo-ok of the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) also speculated that Kim Jong-Il's death could have been an act of "homicide," the result of an internal power struggle.
Although the dictator has been in bad health since he reportedly suffered a stroke in August 2008, recent public appearances suggest Kim Jon-Il's health was improving.
Rumors have long circulated that not all of the country's military units held the slavish devotion to their "dear leader" that was portrayed by the state-run media.
As Infowars reported yesterday, strong rumors of the regime's collapse have been circulating for over a year on the back of suspicions that Kim Jong-Il had already died. The London Telegraph questioned back in September 2010 whether a double was covering for his premature death, noting that North Korea had gone to some lengths to formally name his son, Kim Jong-un, still in his twenties, as successor in a ceremony.
Meanwhile in a related report, China has sent 2,000 PLA troops to the border with North Korea in an effort to ensure refugees do not flood across the border. 30,000 Chinese troops will be in place by the end of the month, according to a report out of Taiwan's Central News Agency . The amount of North Koreans attempting to flee the country has surged in recent years.
(PRISON PLANET) Bolstering claims that North Korean dictator had been dead for over a year South Korean intelligence chief Won Seo-hoon has questioned the circumstances behind Kim Jong-il's death, pointing to evidence that the train the North Korean dictator supposedly died traveling on was stationary in Pyongyang, lending credence to claims that the "dear leader" has in fact been dead for months or even years.
South Korean intelligence chief Won Seo-hoon has questioned the circumstances behind Kim Jong-il's death, pointing to evidence that the train the North Korean dictator supposedly died traveling on was stationary in Pyongyang, lending credence to claims that the "dear leader" has in fact been dead for months or even years.
"The head of South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Tuesday expressed cautious doubts over the time and location of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's death, parliamentary officials said, raising questions over whether the communist North tried to beautify Kim's death," reports the Korea Herald.
North Korean state media claimed that Jong-il died from a heart attack due to "overwork and stress" during a train journey Saturday, but Seo-hoon told a National Assembly Intelligence Committee that the train remained stationary at Pyongyang railway station throughout the weekend.
"There were no signs the train ever moved," he was quoted as telling the parliamentary committee.
Rumors that the North Korean leader had in fact died many months or even years before yesterday's official announcement have been persistent.
The London Telegraph questioned back in September 2010 whether a double was covering for his premature death, noting that North Korea had gone to some lengths to formally name his son, Kim Jong-un, still in his twenties, as successor in a ceremony.
As we reported yesterday, rumors continue to circulate that Kim Jong-Il, whether he died recently or months before, was in fact murdered by discontented members of the North Korean military.
"A rumor is circulating that earlier a high-ranking North Korean official was shot dead. This has yet to be confirmed, but such talk is evidence that discontent was brewing among some people in the North," political scientist An Chan-il told the Korea Times, adding that military officers "could have played a role in his death".
This claim was also echoed by Rep Chun Yo-ok of the ruling Grand National Party (GNP), who speculated that Kim Jong-Il's death could have been an act of "homicide," the result of an internal power struggle.
(Robert Burns) The Pentagon says it has agreed with North Korea to resume – after a six-year break – the search for remains of U.S. servicemen unaccounted for from the Korean War.
The deal was made Thursday after three days of negotiations in Bangkok.
The U.S. and North Korea began working together on the recovery of U.S. war remains in 1996. But in 2005 the Bush administration called a halt, saying it was concerned for the safety of the U.S. teams in North Korea.
The Korean war ended with an armistice in 1953.
The new searches are part of a broader U.S. effort to improve relations with North Korea. Next week it plans to hold what the State Department calls exploratory talks with the North on its nuclear weapons program.
North Korea seeking formal end to Korean War along with a peace treaty with U.S.
(Madison Ruppert) The nation of North Korea has been putting forth a diplomatic front that is completely opposed to the portrayal we have seen of this communist country in recent years.
A top-level North Korean diplomat arrived in New York this week in order to discuss the North Korean nuclear program.
It is now being reported that the diplomat, Vice Foreign Minister of North Korea Kim Kye-Gwan, has called for a treaty with America that would formally end the protracted Korean War.
The Korean War essentially ended in an armistice in 1953, yet the United States has kept over 28,000 troops in South Korea since the '50s cease-fire.
The dialogue is looking promising, at least as far as the North Korean's willingness to come to the table is concerned.
However, the United States vehemently opposes the idea of giving any wiggle room to North Korea simply for coming back to the negotiations.
One assumes that North Korea is going to request something in exchange for whatever demands the United States makes in order to sign a peace treaty.
What these sacrifices will be no one can know for sure.
One can speculate, however, that they will likely request a troop withdrawal from South Korea.
If this request is made, this writer believes it is safe to assume the United States will not grant such a wish.
The fact is, without some compromises on the part of the United States, this unnecessarily difficult negotiation process will go nowhere.
(NEWSMAX) Gary Samore, a top Obama administration national security official, warned of new sanctions if North Korea conducted a third round of nuclear tests on Monday, as reports surfaced that North Korea has miniaturized its nuclear warheads so they can be delivered by ballistic missile.
(HELIUM) South Korea's daily newspaper is reporting that what Western analysts have feared has happened: Chinese troops have been deployed into North Korea. The Chinese now have a presence in the rogue state for the first time in more than 15 years.
China has had no military presence in the rogue country since 1994 after it quit the Military Armistice Commission that supervises the Armistice that suspended the Korean war.
Since that time, Pyonyang has stridently announced that it will no longer abide by the agreement. During 2010 the North Korean government officially declared that it is once again in a state of war with South Korea and the U.S.
The South Korean government confirmed reports on January 18, 2011 that China has stationed military forces in the special economic zone of Rajin-Sonbong.
It's a move on China's part that has seen U.S. and South Korean military experts rushing back to reprogram their war games scenario computers.
A week earlier, the South Korean daily newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, carried quotes from a government official wishing to remain anonymous. The official who works for the South Korean president stated that Party leaders in Beijing and Pyongyang's leaders recently held "substantive" talks about the need to station Chinese troops in the troubled region.
The unnamed official further revealed that the Chinese planned to deploy their troops in the city of Rason, within Rajin-Sonbong, a special economic zone located in North Korea's northeastern quadrant.
The reasoning behind the Chinese troop deployment is presumably to afford protection for Chinese ports that might be at risk if a war breaks out on the Peninsula, but South Korean analysts consulted by the paper point out that the targeted location positions the troops in a militarily strategic location.
The city gives the Chinese direct access to the Sea of Japan.
One senior South Korean official downplayed the report saying that it only permits China to come to North Korea's aid in the event of greater North Korean instability.
The government of North Korea has grown increasingly dependent upon their giant communist neighbor. As the North's economy continues to deteriorate their saber-rattling has become increasingly bellicose. During December of 2010 they warned that they were ready to annihilate any aggressor and would be more than willing to defend themselves with their nuclear stockpile.
Military nuclear experts estimate the North now has between six to twelve nuclear weapons. None have been successfully modified to arm missiles yet.
The South Korean paper also reported that Seoul's International Security Ambassador Nam Joo-Hong believed that China had the capability to rush large numbers of troops into the North if extreme instability became evident.
"The worst scenario China wants to avoid is a possibly chaotic situation in its northeastern provinces which might be created by massive inflows of North Korean refugees," Chosun Ilbo quoted Nam as saying.
The Daily NK, a North Korean newspaper and online news source, claims the North and China signed an economic agreement the end of 2010. As part of the contract, China will construct three more piers at the seaport and build a new highway. Daily NK also reports that a new railroad will be built between Quanhe in Jilin and Rajin-Sonbong.
Both the North and South newspapers failed mentioning the concerns raised by South Korean and U.S. military leaders about the dangers of a Chinese involvement in a new Korean war.
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Three women, bound together by the threads of fate, overlap paths within the infamous Witch's Tower.
Each of them, with their own unfortunate circumstances, are merely struggling to live within a society that rejects their true selfs.
There is an island which used to be a place to banish sinners in the past.
An orthodox RPG with story branching in the middle of scenario with varying H scenes in each different branch.
Humanity was under attack by an army of inter dimensional monsters.
And another creature appears from the other dimension.
Giving humanity powers to fight against the monster army.
Fighting against the monster legions in their dazzling outfits.
The women of this country will gladly use their bodies to diligently serve all men and their respective desires. Dark elves, high elves, halflings, and humans! Princess knights, female mercenaries, holy knights, queens, princesses, goddesses, and priestesses! Sexually torture and assault the various pitiable, yet cute heroines as much as you please.


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TYRONE — A 26-year-old Tyrone man faces 14 felony charges for an alleged northern Blair County burglary spree.
Jeremy Verdan Mountz was arraigned Friday morning before Magisterial District Judge Fred Miller and returned to Blair County Prison, where he was being held on another matter, in lieu of $350,000 straight bail.
Mountz's burglary streak allegedly began in October, when he took a chain saw, gas tank and two hand saws from a Grazierville garage, police state.
Mountz also stole another chainsaw and five gas cans that month in the Hoovers Lane area of Snyder Township, court documents state.
The state police-led investigation also involved Tyrone and Bellwood police.
Mountz is charged with stealing 10 chainsaws, a red pick-up truck, a laptop computer, a power washer, air compressor and Pennsylvania inspection stickers.
Mountz took troopers on a tour of the area, pointing out garages and businesses he hit, according to police.
In one of his interviews with state police, Mountz blamed a dead accomplice for committing the thefts and said he paid him money to get items that later were fenced.
Authorities say that Mountz's spree took him to Bald Eagle, Hoovers Lane, Gates Hill Road and Pot Pie Hill, as well as Decker Hollow and 18th Street in Tyrone borough.
Police also said they have witnesses to some of the alleged thefts, along with video surveillance.
Mirror Staff Writer Greg Bock is at 946-7446.


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Q: Setar "cliente" na sessão Olá, provavelmente o problema possa ser mais de lógica, mas to um bom tempo em cima e não consigo solucionar.
Estou desenvolvendo um "analitycs" próprio, então quando o usuário acessa o site, recebe um "nome" fictício na sessão e é gravado nos cookies por 15min, o problema é que quando grava os logs, no primeiro acesso o sistema não envia o nome randômico gerado na sessão, apenas quando muda de página (mas já no primeiro acesso é gravado nos cookies) ou da F5, estou gravando uma cópia nos cookies. Segue abaixo o código:
session_start();
if(!empty($sessaoSite) && $sessaoSite > 4){
    $SESSION['cliente'] = $sessaoSite;
}else{
    $tamanho = mt_rand(5,9);
    $all_str = "abcdefghijlkmnopqrstuvxyzwABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890";
    $nome = "";
    for ($i = 0;$i <= $tamanho;$i++){
      $nome .= $all_str[mt_rand(0,61)];
    }
    if (!isset($_COOKIE['cliente'])) {
        setcookie('cliente', $nome, time() + 900);
        $SESSION['cliente'] = $_COOKIE["cliente"];
    }
}

$SESSION['cliente'] = $_COOKIE["cliente"];

$sessaoSite = $_COOKIE["cliente"];

Por não receber o nome no primeiro acesso, bagunça todas as informações e não consigo comparar o tempo que ficou na página, pois o primeiro acesso fica com o "cliente" em branco e não consigo agrupar essas informações.
Explicando o resto do código que não esta aqui: posteriormente eu recupero isso aqui por javascript, formato em JSON e faço um post para o arquivo que recebe as informações (data, hora, ip, navegador...) num array e envia pro servidor.
Eu colei só a primeira parte, pois acredito que o problema esteja aí, por que se eu faço um echo do $sessaoSite, também só printa depois que recupera dos cookies em outro acesso.

A: Galera, consegui, dei uma alterada no código e declarei a variável da sessão lá no início e deu certo \o/, segue abaixo a solução, se caso mais alguém passar por isso, está aí a dica hehe
session_start();
$SESSION['cliente'] = $_COOKIE["cliente"];

$sessaoSite = $SESSION['cliente'];
if(!empty($sessaoSite) && $sessaoSite > 4){
    $SESSION['cliente'] = $sessaoSite;
    $sessaoSite = $sessaoSite;

}else if($sessaoSite == null){
    $tamanho = mt_rand(5,9);
    $all_str = "abcdefghijlkmnopqrstuvxyzwABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890";
    $nome = "";
    for ($i = 0;$i <= $tamanho;$i++){
      $nome .= $all_str[mt_rand(0,61)];
    }

    if (!isset($_COOKIE['cliente'])) {
        setcookie('cliente', $nome, time() + 900);
        $SESSION['cliente'] = $_COOKIE["cliente"];
        $sessaoSite = $_COOKIE["cliente"];
    }
    $sessaoSite = $nome;
}

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CIA thwarts 'undetectable' al-Qaida bomb plot
May 7, 2012 (WASHINGTON)
The plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. This new bomb was also designed to be used in a passenger's underwear, but this time al-Qaida developed a more refined detonation system, U.S. officials said.
The FBI is examining the latest bomb to see whether it could have passed through airport security and brought down an airplane, officials said. They said the device did not contain metal, meaning it probably could have passed through an airport metal detector. But it was not clear whether new body scanners used in many airports would have detected it.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters Monday that she had been briefed about an "undetectable" device that was "going to be on a U.S.-bound airliner."
There were no immediate plans to change security procedures at U.S. airports.
The would-be suicide bomber, based in Yemen, had not yet picked a target or bought a plane ticket when the CIA stepped in and seized the bomb, officials said. It's not immediately clear what happened to the alleged bomber.
White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said President Barack Obama learned about the plot in April and was assured the device posed no threat to the public.
"The president thanks all intelligence and counterterrorism professionals involved for their outstanding work and for serving with the extraordinary skill and commitment that their enormous responsibilities demand," Hayden said.
The operation unfolded even as the White House and Department of Homeland Security assured the American public that they knew of no al-Qaida plots against the U.S. around the anniversary of bin Laden's death. The operation was carried out over the past few weeks, officials said.
"We have no credible information that terrorist organizations, including al-Qaida, are plotting attacks in the U.S. to coincide with the anniversary of bin Laden's death," White House press secretary Jay Carney said on April 26.
On May 1, the Department of Homeland Security said, "We have no indication of any specific, credible threats or plots against the U.S. tied to the one-year anniversary of bin Laden's death."
The White House did not explain those statements Monday.
The CIA mission was such a secret, even top lawmakers were not told about it as the operation unfolded, one U.S. official said Monday.
The AP learned about the thwarted plot last week but agreed to White House and CIA requests not to publish it immediately because the sensitive intelligence operation was still under way. Once officials said those concerns were allayed, the AP decided to disclose the plot Monday despite requests from the Obama administration to wait for an official announcement Tuesday.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security acknowledged the existence of the bomb late Monday, but there were no immediate plans to adjust security procedures at airports. Other officials, who were briefed on the operation, insisted on anonymity to discuss details of the plot, many of which the U.S. has not officially acknowledged.
"The device never presented a threat to public safety, and the U.S. government is working closely with international partners to address associated concerns with the device," the FBI said in a statement.
It's not clear who built the bomb, but, because of its sophistication and its similarity to the Christmas bomb, counterterrorism officials suspected it was the work of master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri or one of his protDegDees. Al-Asiri constructed the first underwear bomb and two others that al-Qaida built into printer cartridges and shipped to the U.S. on cargo planes in 2010.
Both of those bombs used a powerful industrial explosive. Both were nearly successful.
The operation is an intelligence victory for the United States and a reminder of al-Qaida's ambitions, despite the death of bin Laden and other senior leaders. Because of instability in the Yemeni government, the terrorist group's branch there has gained territory and strength. It has set up terrorist camps and, in some areas, even operates as a de facto government.
But along with the gains there also have been losses. The group has suffered significant setbacks as the CIA and the U.S. military focus more on Yemen. On Sunday, Fahd al-Quso, a senior al-Qaida leader, was hit by a missile as he stepped out of his vehicle along with another operative in the southern Shabwa province of Yemen.
Al-Quso, 37, was on the FBI's most wanted list, with a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture. He was indicted in the U.S. for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in the harbor of Aden, Yemen, in which 17 American sailors were killed and 39 injured.
Al-Quso was believed to have replaced Anwar al-Awlaki as the group's head of external operations. Al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. airstrike last year.


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GE products are good products have always bought GE. So far it works great.
This was in my home when I moved. It works well but the top shelf is weird and not very functional.
You pay for what you get. I knew I was getting a basic dishwasher. I did expect it to stand up to daily usage for a couple of years. However, The top rack has bent and is challenging to close (I don't overload). And the soap dispenser gets stuck open all the time. It's fine, but I'm disappointed.
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There is perhaps no other civilian author that has searched so deeply and learned so much about the "Green Berets", which happens to be the title of his earlier book, on which John Wayne's movie was based. Following the Invasion of Afghanistan, he went as quickly as he could get there and talked to the Men from the 5th Special Forces Group who were still there to hear the stories straight from the horses' mouths on how 200 Special Operations troops were able to rid the world of a tyranny and deal a deadly blow to the enemy Al-Qaeda Terrorists in the weeks following 9/11. (*****)
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The Last to Still Argue for a Win in Afghanistan
In 1993, Osama thought he understood the lesson: America would back down from a fight, if they just killed a few of Our Troops. He had learned the lesson from Viet Nam, and from Somalia. In both cases, Our Troops had delivered America Great Victories, but the politicians had managed to defeat Our Troops. There was a point in 2006, 2007, and into 2008, where it looked like the politicians would pull a defeat off in Iraq too. In a sense, they did. General Petraeus was able to pull Victory out of the jaws of the politicians in the nick of time.
In the wake of the 2008 elections, I warned colleagues that the media and politicians were going to try it again in Afghanistan. It had been a tough year in Afghanistan, but the war there has been the least deadly in American History.
Nevertheless, the media has done its part to publicize every negative while ignoring the positives. In few other places will you find the stories of the Generosity Our Troops are doing every day. In few other places will you find their daily Victories. The MSM had sabotaged the Mission in Iraq and now they were fully focused on doing the same in Afghanistan. It wasn't for a lack of stories that they didn't report daily. It was for a lack of negative stories and the others they ignored.
They gave a quack in Florida the spotlight when he threatened to burn a Koran, and again when he did so. The MSM knew it would get Afghans and Pakis riled up. In the regular course of events, the MSM would have ignored the ignorance, but they just couldn't pass up the attention. The resulting protests helped convince some Americans that Afghans were worth saving.
When Obama wanted to half-step the request of General McChrystal for more Troops, the MSM helped make his case. When McChrystal complained privately that he was barely being given the time of day (20 minutes at the back of Air Force 1) by the Administration, Rolling Stones published every derogatory remark from every staff member with insinuation that it was McChrystal himself saying it.
When Obama finally announced he had relented to NATO pressure, and would send only 30,000 instead of the minimum of 40,000 requested, he also announced that the withdrawal would begin barely after the Troops arrived. He had campaigned on making Afghanistan, his "just war," his "top priority." Obama owns the current situation in Afghanistan, both in the things he did and the things he didn't do.
It was tempting for Republicans to do to Obama, what Obama and his party had done to Bush; to hype the negatives of the war he had claimed. It was tempting for the Conservatives to argue that it was time to pull out of what the POTUS had staked his own wartime presidency. 2009 was the deadliest year ever in Afghanistan, until 2010. 2011 was worse than 2009. All told, the last 3 years have seen 75% of the post 9/11 violence.
Worse, Obama policies were often to blame. His withdrawal policy, issued in 2009, emboldened the enemy. His political correctness policy tied the hands of Troops to kill the enemy. His revolving door policy was releasing the fighters 30 days after they had been captured. His bombing campaign in Pakistan riled and alienated a reluctant but necessary ally, resulting initially in blocked and burned supplies along Paki supply routes, and then a final block on all supplies through the country. Under the Obama Presidency, Pakistan has gone from fighting the Taliban to embracing them as secret allies. It has gone from an ally to a stonewaller, and that too was predicted, before he was elected.
Biden had argued for a Counter-Terrorism only policy in 2009, instead of a Surge.
The right of the aisle had committed to Counter-Insurgency, which included the Clinton era trademark of Nation Building, as a piece of it. The Petraeus Plan had included vital components such as seeking out, closing with, and destroying the enemy, as well as making locals a key component of securing their own villages.
The Obama plan attempted to play nice with insurgents, while dropping explosives by pilots thousands of miles away on an allied Nation. It pushed for peace negotiations with an enemy that had no reason or desire to compromise and a history of not giving an inch in its dictatorial demands of the people. Afghans warned the Taliban leadership should not be negotiated with.
After 3 years of bad policies, of tying the hands of Our Troops, it is easy to say "Screw it. We'll take our ball and go home." It's particularly easy when some of the deadliest attacks are being carried out by Afghans in their Army or Police uniforms.
But while the infiltration of the ANA/ANP by the Taliban was predictable when politicians pushed for expansion of their numbers at a faster pace than they could be vetted, the attacks themselves are a demoralizing but low in number compared to how many Afghan troops are in uniform. The trend can only be reversed a wholesale change of policies, but the attacks have achieved precisely what the enemy desired: undermining US Support for the Mission, and creating distrust between Our Troops and their enemy, the ANA.
The Taliban are still a minority. Supporters of the Taliban are still a minority. The vast majority of Afghans oppose the Taliban and support democracy.
To pull out of Afghanistan would be to sentence Afghans to a new Civil War. It would likely lead to a return a Taliban ruled Afghanistan, and potentially an expansion of the Taliban into Pakistan as well. At a time when If the Taliban return to power in Afghanistan they will give Al-Qaeda and other Islamist terrorists all the space they want to train for the next attacks on Americans.
The violent protests over Koran burnings are not the average Afghan. They barely numbered in the thousands in a Nation of Millions. The anger in Khandahar over the murder of 16 Afghans? Those are average Afghans, with a right to be upset, though that anger will be misdirected.
On 18 November 1997, Madeleine Albright said: "We are opposed to the Taliban because of their opposition to human rights and their despicable treatment of women and children and great lack of respect for human dignity."
In the same month: "The continued support by these outside forces [Iran & Pakistan], combined with the apathy of others [United States & Europe] not directly involved is rendering diplomatic initiatives almost irrelevant."
The Taliban had been starving Afghans out of resistance. The UN had gone on the run from Taliban oppression, while Pakistan had contracted to give the Taliban alone food during a rough winter. They had used the football stadium re-furbished by the UN as a field of execution.
If they return to power, they will do the same again. The Taliban have not changed, not for the better anyway.
Going back into Afghanistan will be harder than staying. Afghanistan is still winnable. The Afghan people are not barbarians that cannot embrace peace or a democratic change of government. On the contrary, the vast majority of Afghans already embrace democracy, as an imperfect yet best form of government.
The problem is the politicians in Washington. A law degree does not make one a General. Community organizing doesn't give one the experience needed to win a war. The problem is not the Troops. It is not Afghans. The enemy is not insurmountable. The problem are the politicians in Washington that decided to tie Our Troops hands and announce to the enemy the dates of retreat before the first re-enforcements arrived. Change the politicians.
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Secondary compounds characterization of five aromatic plants growing wild in Tunisia
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A. Bettaieb1*
N. Moujahed1
G. Hamdaoui2
R. Ksouri3
1 Animal Resources and Food-processing Laboratory, Agronomy National Institut of Tunisia. 43. Av Ch. Nicolle, 1082, Tunis, Tunisia.
2 Bioactive substances laboratory, Borj Cedria Biotechnology center, BP 901, 3050, Hammam-Lif, Tunis, Tunisia.
3 Medicinal and Aromatic Plants laboratory. Borj Cedria Biotechnology center, BP 901, 3050, Hammam-Lif, Tunis, Tunisia.
Abstract - Five wild growing species were collected from Zaghouan (eastern-north of Tunisia, semi-arid, limestone) in order to evaluate their chemical composition for an eventual animal use context, particularly the enhancement of animal nutrition and health. These aromatic plants were selected for their highest content in phenolic, flavonoid, condensed tannin, saponin contents and essential oils composition. Results showed that among the studied species, Myrtus communis displayed the highest total polyphenol (101.3 mg GAE/g DW), while Ladandula stoechas, Rosmarinus officinalis, and Thymus vulgaris were the lowest ones (25.78, 22.74 and 20.50 mg GAE/g DW respectively). The amount of flavonoids varied widely between 28.6 and 5.1 mg /g DW in Mentha pelagium and Myrtus communis respectively. In addition, Condensed tannin content in Myrtus (6.39 mg CE/g DW) was higher than other species for which condensed tannin concentration ranged approximately between 1.37 and 3.30 mg/g DW. Concerning saponin content, it was the utmost in Lavandula (12.01 mg/g DW). Besides, the main compounds were 1.8-cineol in Rosmary (39 %) and thymol (61.3%) in Thym. It was concluded that the vegetal diversity in the studied area presented a consequent chemical diversity, available for animals as fed in grazing or in housing conditions. These bioactive molecules, mainly essential oils, may be used for their antimicrobial actions to improve animal health and performance.
Keywords: Polyphenols, flavonoids, condensed tannins , saponins, essential oils.
Since middle ages, plants have been widely used for medicinal and cosmetic purposes. Indeed, the richness of some aromatic and medicinal species in secondary metabolites and namely essential oils is nowadays largely recognized (Agostini-Costa et al, 2012) Several metabolites are known for their bactericidal, virucidal, fungicidal, antiparasitical and insecticidal properties (Lim, 2014 ; Pistelli et al 2012 ;Wannes et al.2009 ;Bakkali et al, 2008). Concerning animal field, polyphenols, flavonoïds, tannins and saponins are importent for their effect on feed quality and zootechnic performances. Previous studies proved essential oils potential to manipulate rumen fermentation to improve feed efficiency in ruminants and/or as chemical tracers for traceability of meat produced from grazing ruminant (Benchaar et al 2008 ; Francis et al, 2002). In Tunisia, the region of Zaghouan (eastern north) is characterized by a specific bioclimate particularly favourable to the multiplication of numerous aromatic and medicinal species. The aim of this work was then to determine, as a first step, the composition of some of these autochton species (essential oils and secondary metabolites) in order to study in fine their zootechnic effect.
Rosmarinus officinalis, Thymus vulgaris, Mentha pelagium, Myrtus communis and Lavandula stoechas. A voucher specimen has been kept in our unit for future reference. The sampling was done during the period of spring 2011 by a randomized collection from 15-20 plants in an area of about 200 m2. Plant leaves and twigs were collected in flowering stage. The plant dry matter (DM) content was determined at 105°C in a forced-air oven.
Procedure of plant extracts preparation
Two types of plant secondary metabolites were extracted during this study: methanolic extracts and essential oils. For the methanolic extracts, prior to analysis, the harvested material was dried at 40°C during 48 h and then ground to pass through 1 mm sieve and stored in obscurity. Extracts were obtained by magnetic stirring of 2.5 g dry powder in 25 ml methanol/water (80v/20v) for 30 min. Extracts were kept for 24 h at 4°C, filtered through a Whatman no. 4 filter paper, then, they were stored at 4°C. Methanolic secondary metabolites were analyzed for their total phenolic, flavonoid, condensed tannins and saponin contents. For the analysis of essential oil, plant samples were air dried for 10 days. Three lots of 800 g of each plant leaves and twigs were hydro-distillated for 2 h (time duration fixed after a kinetic survey during 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180 and 210 min, data not shown).The volatile compounds collected through hydro-distillation were wrapped in aluminium foil to protect them from light degradation and stored at 4°C until GC/MS analysis.
Plant extracts analysis
Total phenolic content
Total phenolic content of the methanolic extracts was determined using Folin–Ciocalteu reagent slightly modified by Dewanto et al. (2002) using gallic acid as a standard (0–400 µg/ml range). An aliquot of diluted sample extract was added to 0.5 ml of distilled water and 0.125 ml of the Folin–Ciocalteu reagent. The mixture was shaken and allowed to stand for 6 min, before addition of 1.25 ml of 7% Na2CO3. The solution was then adjusted with distilled water to a final volume of 3 ml and mixed thouroughly, and held for 90 min at ambient temperature. After incubation in dark, the absorbance at 760 nm was recorded. Total phenolic content of plant parts was expressed as milligrammes of gallic acid equivalents per gramme of dry weight (mg GAE/ g DW) through the calibration curve with gallic acid. All samples were analyzed in triplicates.
Flavonoïd content
Total flavonoid content was measured using a colorimetric assay developed by Dewanto et al. (2002). An aliquot of diluted sample or standard solution of (+)-catechin was added to 75 µl of NaNO2 solution (7%), and mixed for 6 min, before adding 0.15 ml AlCl3 (10%). After 5 min, 0.5 ml of 1 M NaOH solution was added. The final volume was adjusted to 2.5 ml, thoroughly fixed, and the absorbance of the mixture was determined at 510 nm. Total flavonoid content was expressed as mg (+)-catechin equivalent per gramme of dry weight (mg CE/g DW), through the calibration curve of (+)-catechin (0–400 µg/ml range). All samples were analyzed in triplicates.
Total condensed tannin content
The total condensed tannin content was determined by spectrophotometric method (Sun et al.,1998). Three millilitres of 4% methanol vanillin solution and 1.5 ml of concentrated H2SO4 were added to 50 µl of suitably diluted sample. The mixture was allowed to stand for 15 min, and the absorbance was measured at 500 nm against solvent as a blank. The amount of total condensed tannins is expressed as mg (+)-catechin/g DW. The calibration curve range of catechin was established between 0 and 400 µg/ml. All samples were analyzed in triplicates.
Saponin content
The saponin content was determined by spectrophotometic method (Hiai, 1976). One a half millilitres of methanol vanillin and 2,5 ml of concentrate H2SO4 were added to 50 µl of suitably diluted sample. The mixture was immediately incubated in an ice bath then in 60 °C for 10 mn and reincubated in an ice bath. The absorbance was measured at 544 nm. The amount of saponin is expressed as mg diosgenin/g DW. All samples were analyzed in triplicates.
Essential oil analysis
Essential oils composition was assessed using Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC/MS) analysis. This analysis was performed on an HP 5972 mass spectrometer (Agilent technologies, Palo Alto, California, USA) with electron impact ionization (70 eV). An HP-5MS capillary column (30 m-0.25 mm coated with 5% phenyl methyl silicone, 95% dimethylpolysiloxane, 0.25 lm film thickness) was used. Oven temperature was programmed to rise from 50 to 240 °C at a rate of 5°C/min; transfer line temperature was 250°C. The carrier gas was He with a flow rate of 1.2 ml/min and a split ratio of 60:1. Scan time and mass range were 1 s and 40–300 m/z, respectively. The identification of volatile compounds was made by matching their recorded mass spectra with those stored in the Wiley/NBS mass spectral library of the GC/MS data system and other published mass spectra (Adams, 2001). Determination of the percentage composition was based on peak area normalization without using correction factors.
Secondary metabolites composition
Methanolic extracts of the different studied species were characterized. Secondary compounds composition is given in Table 1. As far as total polyphenols are concerned, the analysis of these data showed 3 groups of phenolic contents: the group 1 contained the highest level of phenolics: 101.3 GAE/g DM for Myrtus. The group 2 held a medium level specie which is Mentha pelagium: 56.20 GAE/g DM. The group 3 represented the lowest levels of phenolic content which are comprised between 20.50 and 25.78 GAE/g DM for Lavandula, Rosmarinus and Thymus; decreased by level. For this last group, Wojdylo et al. (2007), adding reagents to prevent oxidative losses of phenols, reported a higher content for Rosmarinus officinalis (171 mg GAE/g DM) and Thymus vulgaris (58 mg GAE/g DM). Concerning flavonoids, the group 1 held high content species: 28.56, 23.1 and 22.4 mg CE/g DM for Mentha, Lavandula and Rosmarinus, respectively. Content was lower for group 2 and 10.71 mg CE/g DM was found for Thymus. For this specie, Eghdami et al. (2013) reported 4.30 (QE)/g and Marculescu et al. (2008) 0.485% of rutosid. The lowest content was observed in group 3 represented by Myrtus (5.14 mg CE/g DM). We deduced that the classification according to polyphenols richness is not conserved for flavonoids. In fact, the polyphenols richest specie (Myrtus) is the lowest in flavonoids. In addition, Mentha which is richest in flavonoids is relatively rich en polyphenols. According to condensed tanins content, we found in group 1 (6.39 mg CE/g DM) Myrtus and Mentha in group 2 (3.30 and 2.18 mg CE/g DM, respectively). Concerning group 3 tanins are 1.34 mg CE/g DM for Thymus vulgaris and and 1.37 mg CE/g DM for Rosmarinus. Lavandula stoechas exhibited the highest saponins content: 12.01 mg DE/g DM, all others were almost 7 mg DE/g DM. We point out that secondary metabolites determination of this species were earlier estimated in literature. However, the results of these studies are difficult to compare with our results because of different extract nature and extraction methods. Some authors gave the amounts of metabolites as mass in weight of fresh herb or extract or by referring to another standard.
Table 1. Secondary compounds composition of the studied species
Total polyphenols
Flavonoïds
Condensed tannins
Saponins
mg GAE/g DM
mg CE/g DM
mg DE/g DM
Mentha pelagium
Myrtus communis
Lavandula stoechas
Chemical composition of essential oils
The main essential oils compounds of the studied species are presented in Table 2. A wide variety of components was identified for the different essential oils, but only the ten most abundant of them are listed in Table 2.
Table 2. Main compounds of the studied species essential oil
1. 8-cineol (39.00 %)
Thymol (61.32 %)
β-thujone (30.13 %)
α-pinene (29.47 %)
β-cymene (26.27 %)
Borneol (9.83 %)
γ-terpinene (7.68 %)
Camphor (17.43 %)
Limonene (20.43 %)
Spathulenol (15.66 %)
α-pinene (9.03 %)
β-cymene (7.58 %)
α-thujone (11.92 %)
Linalool (11.53 %)
Sabinene (13.14 %)
Camphor (8.45 %)
β-caryophyllene (2.82 %)
1.8-cineol (7.64 %)
linalyl acetate (10.00 %)
β-pinene (9.66 %)
β-linalool (2.73 %)
Chrysanthenone (5.33 %)
acetate geranyl (5.63 %)
3-carene (5.56 %)
Camphene (4.26 %)
α-terpinene (2.09 %)
1.8 cineole (2.26 %)
1-phellandrene (4.77 %)
bornyl acetate (3.56 %)
β-myrcene (1.81 %)
p-cymene (1.38 %)
Piperitone (2.13 %)
α-terpineol (3.37 %)
α-thujene (1.78 %)
Ni (1.51 %)
α-humulene (1.37 %)
β-Caryophyllene (2.07%)
carvacryl acetate (1.39 %)
Acetate neryl (1.07 %)
1. 8-cineol (1.72 %)
For Rosmary, the most abundant mediterranean Lamiacea, we found 1.8-cineol (39.00 %), Borneol (9.83 %), α-pinene (9.03 %) and Camphor (8.45 %). Literature mentioned that, the amount of these components distinguishes the 3 rosemary chemotypes which are: the 1.8-cineol specific to Italy, France, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia (over than 40%) (Pintore et al., 2002); the Camphor-borneol: in Spain and the α-pinene-verbenone in Algeria and Corsica (Guazzi et al., 2001). Thus, different less abundant chemotypes have been reported in these areas, the Camphor chemotype (28%) was mentioned in the very hot regions of Tunisia and Turkey (Matmata and Mersin) while the 1,8-cineol chemotype in the cool and moderately hot climate (Celiktas et al., 2007; Zaouali et al., 2008). These three chemotypes have been reported in different regions in Spain and Morocco. Many authors explained the antibacterial and antioxidant effect of rosemary by the presence of 1.8-cineol (Oyedemi et al., 2009). As far as Thymus vulgaris is concerned, its essential oil exhibited the higher chemotype proportion: thymol (61.32%). Secondary components are largely inferior to thymol: we find γ-terpinene (7.68 %) and β-cymene (7.58 %). Our results are on line with several researches which all confirmed that thymol is the major compound (≈ 45%) (Hudaib et al., 2002; Ozcan and Chalchat, 2004; Nezhadali et al., 2010). Starting material for the manufacturing of 1-menthol, the thymol is used as disinfectant and antioxidant (BG Chemie, 2000). As it was reported by several authors, Zaouali et al.(2008), Yadegarinia et al.(2006), Chalchat et al.(1998), we found that the chemotype in Myrtus communis, is α-pinene (29.47 %) charactersitic of Tunisia. However, the main components are different from other results reported in Tunisia, Morocco and Greece since the level of limonene and linalool are higher, depending on the 1-8 cineol level (Snoussi et al.,2008; Viuda-Martos et al., 2007; Abidi-wannes et al., 2010). Gardely et al. (2008) has reported that myrtenyl acetate chemotype (23 to 37%) which exists as trace in other studies. The polymerisation of this α-pinene is mainly used to make the camphene, compound of many commercial chemicals such as isoborneol, isobornyl acetate and camphor (Chimal-Valencia et al., 2004). The variability of results and differences with several studies mainly in the Mediterranean regions may reflect the most important variability factors of essential oil contents and composition intrinsic factors such as vegetative cycle and studied organ in addition to intrinsic factors such as climatic and environmental conditions (Baser and Buchbaurer, 2010 ; Zaouali et al., 2008 ; Celiktas et al., 2007 ;Hudaib et al., 2002).
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Sletta est une localité du comté de Troms, en Norvège.

Géographie
Administrativement, Sletta fait partie de la kommune de Balsfjord.

Annexes

Liens internes
 Liste des localités du comté de Troms

Références

Localité de Troms

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Gilboa Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located near Salem, Burke County, North Carolina.  It was built in 1879, and is a rectangular two bay by four bay, frame church building.  It sits on a stone pier foundation and has a standing seam metal roof.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

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Methodist churches in North Carolina
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Churches completed in 1879
19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States
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Committee sets aside parcels as possible tower locations
Richard Moody is reporting for Columbia-Greene Media the Columbia County Board of Supervisors County Government Committee has acted to set aside three properties from its list of 22 tax foreclosures as possible locations for new 911 communication towers. The committee approved a motion at its October 23 meeting to reserve an 8-acre property on Queechy Lake Drive in Canaan; a nearly 14-acre parcel at 101 Bathrick Farm Road in Gallatin; and, 6 acres of vacant land on Covenant Circle in New Lebanon. "I know the county wants to put these up for auction as early as possible," Hudson 3rd Ward Supervisor Michael Chameides said. "We can set these aside and we can always sell them later." The county attorney's office sets minimum bids for foreclosed properties and two of the three set aside by the committee have a combined minimum bid amount of $16,000. The third has no set minimum. The minimum bids for the county's full list of potential foreclosures, excluding those set aside, total $204,000. Columbia County 911 Department Director Robert Lopez chose the properties as potential locations for new towers. The higher the elevation relative to the local terrain, the better the spot is for radio to work, he said. "Relative to the region, the identified locations are high enough to offer us decent coverage," Lopez said. "These spots will also help us cover a larger area." The cost for constructing the towers is still unknown, but the county has $3.5 million on hand for this purpose. Read the full story at HudsonValley360 [dot] com.


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Julia Louis-Dreyfus has never had a problem making people laugh, even from the time she was a child. Watch as she takes us through her legendary career, from Seinfeld and Saturday Night Live to A Bug's Life and Veep.
You know, I don't even remember
really first starting to act.
I was constantly performing, even as a,
like a really little girl.
I was jumping around and doing dances
and all sorts of things for my mom.
There was a moment when I was in third or fourth grade,
and I was in some school play,
and I was playing a queen,
and I was supposed to faint.
It was like a dramatic scene.
I fainted and everybody laughed.
And they weren't supposed to laugh,
but I didn't mind that they were laughing.
I remember thinking, Oh, that's kind of cool.
So that was sort of an aha moment.
[jazz music]
Hi, I'm Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
and this is my Vanity Fair career timeline.
Whatever that means.
Well, where's my best zit?
Oh my, I'm sorry. Hi.
Look, Kenny, listen I was thinking,
I don't have to go tonight,
but I'm willing to go to the prom looking like this,
if you're willing to go with me.
Hey, hey, hey. No.
[Julia] Saturday Night Live.
I was going to school at Northwestern University,
and I was doing a show in downtown Chicago
with The Practical Theater Company
between my Junior and Senior year of college.
And unbeknownst to me,
were the producers of SNL in the audience.
And after that particular show ended, they came backstage
and they offered all of us a job on Saturday Night Live.
So we're like, Yeah, good.
So that was it, I flew the coop.
The first sketch that I was ever in on SNL was
a sketch actually with Chevy Chase as the shark,
but he was doing it remotely.
And so it was sort of like, like a television screen
inside the mouth of a shark.
And it was one of the, you know, candy-gram kind of thing.
It was completely surreal.
I came to SNL at the age of 21,
I was unbelievable naive.
I had really done very little professional theater.
Only Second City and Practical Theater in Chicago.
I had no idea about this business of show.
It was a very male dominated,
male centric environment there.
In addition to the fact that everybody was completely high
on any drug that they could get their hands on.
And I had no idea.
I learned quick.
It was not exactly what I thought it was going to be.
Larry David and I were both at SNL together,
and he was there my third year.
We were both miserable together,
and we bonded over our misery.
And we've been miserable ever since.
I came back to host I think in 2006,
and I was really quite happy to do it.
I mean it was an interesting experience,
because I had been there.
Sort of like, it's like going back to high school
and being able to relive certain moments
that spin around in your head.
So I knew how the show worked,
I knew how to navigate it.
It wasn't unknown to me, it wasn't,
it was really really fun.
And furthermore when I went back
it was being produced by Lorne Michaels,
and it was very female friendly.
Tina and Amy and Kristen and Maya, they were all there.
So I had an absolute ball.
My big takeaway from being on SNL was that
I was only going to do jobs that were pure fun
from thereon out as simplistic as that sounds.
That's not something that's always so easily attained,
but that was my goal.
And I have for the most part.
All right who's dancing?
Come on who's dancing?
Do you want me, do you want me to get it started?
I'll get it started.
[guests cheering]
All right, whoo
♪ When you wish upon a star ♪
[audience laughing]
♪ Ya dreams will take if very far yeah ♪
[claps]
[Elaine] Come on guys, what's the hold up?
[clap]
♪ Life ain't always- ♪
Sweet fancy Moses. [audience laughing]
I became involved with The Seinfeld Chronicles
as it was called early on.
They had made a pilot, I was not in the pilot.
And then it came to my attention,
that NBC had picked up this show The Seinfeld Chronicles
for four episodes.
Larry David was writing it and, Would I be interested?
So I read a couple of the episodes and I thought,
Oh, wow, this doesn't sound like anything on television.
It definitely had a different voice.
A different rhythm than any sitcom at that period of time.
So I went in and I met with Jer
and we got along really well.
And of course Larry was an old friend of mine.
And so I signed up to do it.
I remember thinking back
when we first started doing the show
for those first four episodes.
And I remember thinking,
This show is so good and the network is going to be
so stupid to cancel it.
Because I figured they would let it go.
You know a four order, four episode order
is hardly a seal of approval from the network.
It felt like they were just burning off a commitment.
I just figured we were goners.
But we weren't.
I had lots of thoughts about Elaine,
and she was one of four characters,
and it was very important to me
that she was not just the girl.
And she wasn't written as the girl.
And so I sort of took that and ran with it.
She was, I don't know if this is,
probably not quite right to say,
but she was one of the guys, except she was a girl.
The Elaine dance is from this episode
called The Little Kicks.
And, um, it was just written that,
Elaine danced really badly.
And so, the night before the table read I had the script
and frankly, I just stood in front of the mirror,
and tried to do movements that looked incredibly bad.
And I had a few of them,
and I remember my mom was staying with us at the time
and I came downstairs and I sort of auditioned these
different [laughs]
different movements for my mom and my husband.
And they all voted on the one that, that uh, that I did.
People approach me about the dance all the time.
I say, Oh thank you so much, no I'm not gonna do it.
[laughing off screen]
I don't have a favorite episode,
I had many episodes that I loved.
You know, we did that show for nine years
and it evolved so much over the time,
over that period of time.
So I mean, you know, early on, the episode The Deal,
I loved The Soup Nazi,
I of course I loved The Little Kicks,
I loved The Mango episode,
I mean it goes, Puerto Rican Day Parade.
I have a million shows that,
I mean I'm actually a fan of the show.
So I like a lot of the episodes, yeah.
Jerry and I are really good friends.
And still are to this day.
And just to sort of harken back to what I learned at SNL,
we were having a really good time on that show all the time.
If it made us laugh, it made it into the show.
So that was true of rehearsal,
it was true of the writing process,
it was true of improvising.
And we were just trying to make each other laugh.
And that was a really good,
shall we say, equation for a kind of excellence.
I learned so much that I, I learned about comedy,
I learned more about timing.
It was just more training in performing.
And more training in frankly even producing.
I didn't produce Seinfeld, but I watched.
So I learned a lot that I took with me moving forward.
[Queen Ant] Now what do we do?
[Princess Atta] Oh don't tell me, I know it, I know it.
We relax.
[laughs] Right.
Oh--
[Julia] A Bugs Life
My friends at Pixar invited me to come in,
and they wanted me to, they wanted to hear my voice.
I wanna say it was for a different character,
if I'm remembering this correctly.
And we were just sort of playing around
and then all of a sudden they asked me to read
these lines of Atta Ant,
and the next thing I know they were asked me to do
the one of the lead voices.
Which I was delighted to do.
I haven't really ever done voice overwork before.
I hesitate to think what it sounds like,
I don't know if it was good or not.
'Cause it was all new to me.
But it was certainly a great deal of fun.
It's entirely different from being on camera.
Well for starters you can come in your sweat pants
and you don't have to wear any makeup.
But you have no other tool but your voice.
So your voice has to inform everything,
which is a very different way of performing
than any other kind of performing.
It has to tell the full story, your voice.
So it means you have to sort of explore things
vocally that you might not do otherwise.
What I love most about Princess Atta,
was that she was strong, she was aggressive,
she was a fighter, she wasn't just looking for a prince.
Which I liked.
[piano music]
Lar, the guy came,
I got an estimate and it's gonna cost 500 bucks
to fix that table, the ring.
I--
Come one man, yes you did.
Please don't play this game with me.
I would tell you if I left it.
I respect wood, I revere wood.
I'm considerate of wood.
Oh, I got involved with Curbed
because Lar just called and said, Would ya do it?
And I said, Yeah sure.
I did a number of episodes, um, as myself.
And then, later we sort of did this kind of,
our version of a Seinfeld reunion,
within the structure of Curbed.
That was crazy fun.
'Cause we all got back together again,
they rebuilt the set.
And sort of jerry-rigged it to,
Jerry-rigged, ha, that's funny.
It was sort of a modern version of the Seinfeld apartment.
And that was fun, it was really a great time for all of us.
And to be able to play Elaine,
and then to also play me, working on playing Elaine.
That was kind of bizarre and kind of meta, but cool.
It's kind of what I'm doing right now, talking to camera.
This is a version of myself, but it's not the real me.
One of my most favorite memories
of that time during Curbed
was Bob Einstein played the character of Marty Funkhouser.
And I remember [laughs] that he came on to set
and he told the most foul joke.
And it was so hilarious and it got, by the way,
completely folded into the show.
I think it's in the cut.
I was doubled over laughing,
it was so inappropriate and wonderful.
I encourage all of you to go and try to find that
and see how offended you might become.
[cheerful music]
We have your Honor
[funky music]
We've got Lizer.
[Narrator] Yes, Maggie was the most feared prosecutor
in all of Orange County.
And therefore I would like
to bring your attention to exhibit A.
Mitch Hurwitz reached out to me,
he said he was writing this character named Maggie Lizer,
who was pretending that she was blind.
So already it was like, Oh, that sounds super interesting.
And I was a fan of the show.
So I said, Great, I'll do it.
So I went and did a number of episodes.
I had a ball.
It was harder to do than you might think.
Because I did it with my eyes crossed the whole time,
and believe it or not
when your not actually looking at someone
and talking to them in the scene,
because you can't really see 'em,
'cause your eyes are crossed.
It makes it much harder to learn lines.
At least it did for me.
But maybe I'm just not that intelligent.
And that's a possibility.
But it was super fun.
Years later when I was doing Veep
and people came up to me and to Tony Hale
and said, Oh, you guys were both on Arrested together,
did you have scenes together?
And both Tony and I said, No we didn't,
we never got a chance to work together.
Well guess what?
We did work together.
And we had both forgotten it.
Somebody showed us a picture, we had a scene together.
Neither of us remembered it.
So you can see we made a extraordinarily positive
impression on one another.
[crying noises]
I'm done here.
No, no wait, Barb, oh my god.
Are you okay, what happened to you?
The guy I picked up at the wedding
was an immigration officer.
He's trying to ship me back to the Bahamas.
Oh, that's horrible.
I had a bad time too.
The Old Christine script was sent to me
by Warner Brothers and I liked it very much.
I met with Kari Lizer who wrote and created the show.
She and I got along right away,
and yeah, and so off we went
to make this series for five years.
And we had lots of wonderful actors on the show
including Wanda Sykes and Clark Gregg and Hamish Linklater.
And the show itself was run by a bunch of women.
Which was very refreshing.
Huge number of uh, female writers
and a lot of female producers.
Uh, myself included.
And a lot of working mothers, I will point that out too.
So we got done with work always early,
everybody got home in time to make dinner,
drive carpool, work on homework, you know whatever it was.
I liked the disfunction of Old Christine.
I liked the disfunction of the family relationships,
and uh, the premise of her ex-husband
going out with a woman with the same name, who is younger.
And living with her brother.
It just all felt kind of messy.
And people trying to do the right thing,
but screwing up constantly.
The idea of a mother who was constantly screwing up
was appealing to me.
[soft music]
Wanna kiss?
I became involved with Enough Said,
because I met with Nicole Holofcener.
I had read the script, loved it.
I met with her, we talked, we meshed really well.
And then she offered me this part.
And um, so I was sort of,
or I was the first person cast in the movie.
We got along really well,
I realized I haven't talked to her in a while,
I need to talk to her because she's a good friend of mine.
But I love that woman.
And then uh, Jim Gandolfini wanted to do the movie.
And there we go,
off we went to this heartbreaking film.
Which I think it is actually.
And Jim was utterly charming.
Surprisingly lacked a lot of confidence.
Which was very surprising to me.
This huge impressive person,
he was a little bit shy.
And a little bit tentative doing comedy.
So that was fun to work with him on it
and sort of you know,
kick him in the ass to get him going.
And that was really fun, we had a good time.
Very labor intensive and it took a lot of emotional stuff.
But it was stuff I liked doing.
Nevada's my state, I'm gonna be president
I'm gonna be the first elected lady president.
I'm gonna have a lovely inauguration.
Billy Joel is gonna sing.
My agent told me they were developing a show
over at HBO about a female, unhappy vice-president.
And I was like, Bam, were do I sign up?
That was all I needed to hear.
And that Armando Iannucci was writing and creating it.
This was all, this was his brain child.
And I knew his work from The Loop In the Loop.
Which is a movie I had seen staring James Gandolfini
that Armando had done.
And was nominated for an Academy Award for
as a matter of fact.
And so, I met with Armando,
we were supposed to meet for about 45 minutes
to talk about it.
And it turned into a three hour work session,
it couldn't have been more fun.
Pitching ideas, talking about you know,
I grew up part of my life in Washington, D.C.
So a huge part of my childhood was spent there.
So I really, there's an understanding that I have
of inside the beltway, as we call it, of D.C.
that I sort of could bring to the conversation.
In addition to the fact
that I've done a lot of political work,
and so I've sort of seen behind the curtain a lot.
And that was very useful too.
So we had a great time.
I immediately thought he was a genius,
which of course he is.
And uh, off we went.
And we made it um, over at HBO,
which was like a dream for me.
Really nice to get away from network television,
truth be told and have more creative freedom.
My god, it was incredible.
It's been the most incredible ride of my life.
We did so much research to prepare for the show.
I mean in addition to meeting vice-presidents,
we met with lobbyists, we met with congressmen
and congresswomen, and senators, and chiefs of staff,
and secretary of this, secretary of that, schedulers.
I mean across the board we met so many people.
And got to tour the Eisenhower Building,
spent time in the actual White House,
and the Oval Office in fact.
I mean we did a ton of behind the scenes work.
Which really really reaped many rewards.
The thing that I'll miss most about playing Selina
is she really was a toddler trapped
in a middle-aged woman's body.
And there was something, very fabulous about that
because how a toddler thinks the world revolves around them
and how a toddler has a tantrum every couple times a day
when they don't get their way.
Well that's how Selina behaved.
And it was accepted by everybody who worked for her.
And she blamed everybody for her faults.
Also that was accepted.
So that was from a comedic point of view.
That was just so ripe with opportunity.
And so I will miss that actually.
I will miss playing that kind of character
who was reckless, uh emotionally.
I was very happy with our finale.
I think we kind of,
I hope we gave the fans what they wanted.
We certainly worked hard and blood, sweat, tears
and more tears were poured into that finale.
I think that it worked out really well.
Um in the sense that
Selina got what she though she wanted.
In so doing, she
gives up things,
people, not things, people,
who are the most important to her.
And she's left with that.
And that felt exactly right.
My point is, is that laughter is a basic human need,
along with love, and food and an HBO subscription.
[audience laughter]
There's no situation, none,
that isn't improved with a couple of laughs.
Everybody needs laughs.
So the fact that I have had the opportunity
to make people laugh for a living
is one of the many blessings
that I have received in my life.
When I first was notified about the Mark Twain Prize
I thought that they were emailing me to present it
to another person.
And I was like, Oh, my God, I can't fly all the way to D.C.
I'm in the middle of production,
I don't, to present an award.
And then I realized they were actually asking me
if I wanted to receive the award.
And I was like, Oh, my God, I can't believe it,
of course I wanna take that award.
And it was a incredibly lovely night,
I will say there was a lot of pressure,
because when they give you an award such as that for comedy,
then you're asked to make a, you know, 10, 15 minute speech.
So it's like they give you the award,
and then it's now like, prove it, prove you can really,
you're really deserving of this trophy.
So there was a lot of, you know,
God Almighty, I worked so hard on that speech
and I was very nervous about it.
But it was a very warm room,
it was surprisingly emotional.
I had a lot of really good friends show up,
to make speeches and so on.
And it was, it was just,
it was a night I will never ever forget.
But there's one person who was happier about that night
than anybody else in the whole world.
And that was my mother.
My mother was so out of her mind, she was just beaming.
And she actually told me afterwards,
it was the happiest night of her life. [laughs]
and no offense to Mark Twain, but you know,
other things have happened in her life.
But she really, she really had a good time [laughter]
[woman mumbles offscreen]
She did, she told me, I was like, Mom, come on.
The comedy that I've done
has been just sort of a happy accident.
Because I'm an actress, I'm not a comedian per se.
When looking back at my career choices,
would I change anything?
Of course I would change things,
but I'm not gonna delve into that,
I'm not gonna delve into a list of regrets.
Yeah, there's tons I would change,
but I'm very happy with where I am right now.
I consider myself to be very lucky.
We'll just leave it at that.
I hope this interview goes on for 20 more years.
I wanna be on this apple box 20 years from now,
answering more questions about myself. [laughs]
Starring: Julia Louis-Dreyfus


It's so far so good with lambing. The later lambing date is really suiting my farm. I am lambing the majority of the ewes outside and the triplets and singles are inside. I could not ask for better conditions which are in stark contrast to last year's apocalypse which was like an Antarctic trek with Ernest Shackleton and Tom Crean.
My Fitbit, the new watch thing that measures the amount stuff you do each day. clocked up almost 20 kilometres that I walked over a 15-hour period. It would have been more only that I had to take it off to help out a ewe in a slight predicament and I didn't want to lose it altogether. It's worth monitoring your health and I am glad to be fit enough to carry out this work as you feel great after a busy day.
You would also want to be as elastic as a yoga instructor and as twinkle-toed as a ballerina to manage sheep lambing outside so it's put me thinking maybe there's an alternative income to be earned hosting 'sheep farming health and fitness boot camp'. Who knows.
Grass on the farm is going great, I expect to do a bit of reseeding in May on 30 acres that was sown in Spring barley last year. Reseeding is important to do and more importantly it's important to get right. Taking a soil sample is the first step in this and as soon as lambing drops off I'll get the samples in so I'll know exactly what the soil needs when I go to reseed in May.
I am getting my fair share of ewes prolapsing this year and I treat it by putting on a nylon harness on the ewe. I find the harness is a very good way to deal with a prolapse as the ewe can often lamb with it on and it doesn't cause them any discomfort.
It's always nice to show people what we are doing on the farm so that it is not such a mystery to them. Luckily, they were there to see a lamb being born and my pet lambs received a lot of attention.
One of their questions was did I always want to be a sheep farmer and the truth is I really do and in a year like this it's the best job in the world. Of course, we have our ups and downs, it's never a walk in the park but there is never a dull moment on a farm.


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I've posted some of the write-up of the new setting at the link above. Take a look, and let me know what you think.
Well I, for one, am jazzed about this. I think it'll take some effort, but this could turn out really cool. The following are just some random thoughts.
I was initially a bit concerned about the "mundane powers." If you think about it, it's an oxymoron. I was thinking that mundanes should be able to take advantage of the gap in technology, or the supernatural's habitual inability to think in tech terms. That is, a mundane might be able to hit a vampire with a taser because most vampires wouldn't expect such a thing, if they even knew it existed. I'm much more comfortable with the mundane powers, now, because they obviously apply only to people who know they're in a story, and act accordingly.
That said, the modern setting still makes me think that mundane characters should have a tech advantage of some sort over the demons, even if it's small — mundanes can communicate by cell phone, find obscure information on-line, that kind of stuff.
If I Can…Just…Reach Used if the mundane is is disarmed, but a weapon or other useful item is in view. If the mundane lunges for the item, and the supernatural is unable to attack that mundane further until the mundane actually touches the item.
Our Only Hope Before a battle, the mundane can give a speech explaining how hopeless the situation is, and that the mundanes must succeed. This confers some sort of bonus on the rest of the party.
I also wonder if adverse story cliches work the same way, such as the classic "Things can't possibly get any worse" or turning away from a "dead" enemy without checking.
Maybe I should call it "Mundane Shticks" or something instead? BTW, I would phrase it not that they apply to people who know they're in a story, but to people who know that magic wants to make things fit into stories. It's a subtle distinction maybe, but I don't want the characters thinking of themselves as characters, but as people who can influence outcomes by adopting roles.
I'm always open to suggestions for new powers, gifts, rules, etc.
I'll have to think about adverse cliches; in general I like the idea, but I'm not sure how to make it work since the players won't be trying to invoke them, and it seems a bit unfair for the GM to invoke them against the players.
I agree, btw, that mundanes can and ought to use tech against Supernaturals, but I think that will tend to arise naturally out of play without any special rules to support it.


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